Mummy portrait of a young girl. Egypt, Roman period, ca. 30 BC – 150 AD. Encaustic wax on wood panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, collection [2448×3264] [OC]
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Mummy portrait of a young girl. Egypt, Roman period, ca. 30 BC – 150 AD. Encaustic wax on wood panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, collection [2448×3264] [OC]
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[Egyptian, Roman Period
Mummy Portraits of Young Women and a Young Girl,
C. 30 B.C.-150 A.D.
Encaustic wax on wood panel; painted plaster
Museum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation, Inc., Isabel B. Wilson, Mary Porter, Nancy and Mark Abendshein, and Mrs. Thomas W. Blake, 2009.16; Museum purchase funded by The Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund; Estate of Isabel B. Wilson, 2009.421
These mummy portraits combine the customs of two cultures: the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying the dead and the Roman tradition of creating lifelike portraits of the dead. They were made to cover the faces and coffins of the deceased.]